Wednesday, March 17, 2010 -- General Betrayus with encouraging news, the war in Afghanistan will go on bigger and better and will get "harder" before it gets easier and so expect at least another 18 months of way because, well, they chased al-Qaida out of Iraq and they all went to Afghanistan and now Betrayus will chase them back to Iraq and on and on it goes at something like a billon dollars each day because the USA has so much money it doesn't know
what to do with it all.
"As always, progress is still fragile and it could still be reversed," Betrayus said.
Of course it could be reversed because that's what it's all about. Keep the war going, keep the money flowing to the war profiteers.
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Men pay to watch her eat!
Pure insanity, a real oinker, Donna Simpson, weighing in at roughly over 500 pounds, is trying to put on weight. Why?
So she might become the world's fattest woman!
Ain't that the dumbest thing you ever did hear?
She has her heart (cue laugh track) set on hitting 1000 pounds in two years.
The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world's fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007.
Simpson, who needs a mobility scooter to go shopping, eats huge amounts of junk food each week and tries to move as little as possible so she doesn't burn off as many calories.
"I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favorite," she said, adding she also likes eating sushi and often eats 70 big pieces in one feed bag.
Her 49-year-old partner is encouraging her to reach her goal. "I think he'd like it if I was bigger ... he's a real belly man and completely supports me," she said.
To pile on the weight, Simpson needs to eat 12,000 calories a day, which is six times the recommended daily allowance for women.
In order to pay her weekly grocery bill of $815 she makes money by running a website where men pay to watch her pig out.
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The belief that lowering cholesterol with drugs protects against heart attacks and premature death led to the creation of the best-selling class of medications in history: cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, which generate more than $15 billion in annual sales.
A house of cards, a high cholesterol level is not a reliable sign of an impending heart attack. Experts question whether cholesterol matters at all. The average cholesterol of people who have heart disease isn't much higher than the level of those who don't. Statin drugs, for most of the 40-plus million Americans recommended to take them for the rest of their lives, they're an ineffective, expensive, fraud.
Lipotor and Zocor do lower cholesterol but it doesn't matter. Lipitor ads claim that it reduces risk of heart attack by 36%, but when you do the math you'll see that, as Business Week reported, 100 people must be treated with Lipitor in order for just one heart attack to be prevented. The other 99 people taking the drug receive no benefit.
Over age 65? Not a single study suggests you'll receive any benefits, even if your cholesterol goes down substantially. A woman of any age? Same story. A man younger than 65 who has never had a heart attack? Ditto, no help at all. For middle-aged men who have had a heart attack, statins may lower risk of a repeat heart attack, but that's the extent of it.
Statins lower cholesterol by suppressing the activity of an enzyme in the liver involved in the production of cholesterol. That enzyme has multiple functions, including the synthesis of coenzyme CoQ10 which plays an important role in the metabolic processes that energize our cells. Statin users often complain of fatigue, muscle pain and weakness, and even heart failure for just that reason. Their cells are running out of energy because they're taking statins.
So save your money folks. Eat right and you won't have to worry about cholesterol. Notice the theme here? It's always eat and drink right and exercise and you'll stay healthy.
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As if you need to be reminded, and some people I know do, trans-fats are bad, bad, bad!
The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) in the U.K. is urging British lawmakers to ban trans-fats from the British food supply because the artificial fats are causing heart attacks, strokes, and other serious diseases. Comprised of 3,300 doctors and health specialists, FPH hopes to follow in the footsteps of places like Denmark, Austria, and Switzerland which have all banned trans-fats from their food supplies.
Trans-fats are derived from vegetable oils that have been chemically modified. They bear no nutritional value but are used by food manufacturers to bulk up foods and extend their shelf life. Typically labeled as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated, these artificial fats are commonly found in processed baked goods and desserts, pastries, and fast foods as well as in margarine and shortening.
Same deal pretty much for sugar.
I was not really amazed at the market the other day as I reached for the 10grams of sugar Tropicana orange juice, another man came along and grabbed the Minute Maid with its 24grams of sugar. Ignorance, I surmised as why would anyone go with high-sugared juice when the low sugar juice tastes just as good. True, I don't like buying anything PepsiCo makes, but outside squeezing my own juice I haven't seen at the market an alternative juice.
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Change you can't believe in, Obama said a few days ago that if we're arrested cops should have the right to take our DNA even if they don't charge us with a crime. "It's the right thing to do" Obama said.
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A report, titled "Deadly Delivery," notes that the likelihood of a woman's dying in childbirth in the USA is five times as great as in Greece, four times as great as in Germany and three times as great as in Spain. Every day in the U.S., more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes, with the maternal mortality ratio now twice what it was in 1987 at 13.3 deaths per 100,000 births.
"In the U.S., we spend more than any country on health care, yet American women are at greater risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes than in 40 other countries. We thought that was scandalous," says Nan Strauss, the report's co-author.
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The rich representing the poor.
In Connecticut, for example there is Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dannel Malloy and his 28-foot powerboat and Republican Senate candidate Rob Simmons' J-22 sailboat. Humble toys they are compared with the 47-foot "Sexy Bitch," the sports yacht that Republican Linda McMahon's husband docks in Boca Raton, FL. Then there's the "Odalisque," Republican Tom Foley's 100-foot ship flagged under the Republic of Marshall Islands. Odalisque, comes from the Turkish for a slave in a harem.
Not into boats? There's Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele's wife's 2007 Maseratti Quattroporte.
A related note, my State Senator here in Oregon, outside flyers in the mail, rookie candidate Martha Schroeder never once asked for my vote. She didn't go door-to-door in my hood, no phone call even. Funny, I thought, when her husband, also in politics is/was my vet. So when in the mail I found one of those tell me how I'm doing survey cards I thought of filling it out when I noticed it would cost me a stamp to mail it back.
I gotta pay the stinking return postage when the Senator got to send the card at taxpayer expense? No effing way would I do it. I will complete the survey via the ballot when she comes up for re-election.
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